Information for Contributors

Grief Matters: The Australian Journal of Grief and Bereavement is published three times a year with a central theme for each issue. Articles are written by academics and clinical practitioners working in all aspects of grief and bereavement.

Grief Matters welcomes unsolicited submissions, the publication of which is first subject to thematic suitability.

The journal is currently looking for articles relating to grief, loss and bereavement around the following themes:

Grief in medical settings

Translation of bereavement research into nonfinite loss

Grief and the death of public figures

Global grief and loss issues

Grief of missing persons

Creative expressions of grief

Companion animal loss

Storied grief: grief narratives

Death of a child or adolescent

Death of an adult child

Gender and grief

Violent and multiple deaths

Death of a parent: reflections on ageing

Eco grief.

These themes are unrestricted and tentatively titled. Grief Matters is open to broad interpretations that sit within the journal's scope. Articles should have an academic or applied focus, be around 3,000 words in length and accompanied by an abstract of approximately 125 words. It is a condition of publication that papers have not previously been published, nor are currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Please email submissions, expressions of interest, and further suggestions for themes to the Journal Production Editor, Natalie Coish.

Download Forms

The following forms must be completed and submitted with all articles: